VOLUME X, NO. 9 FEBRUARY 27, 1957 NEW FAITHS IN THE MAKING GREAT changes have come over the worl ... d during the past thirty years, and the most important of them are ... probably the least recognized. One major change has been ... of feelings of clarity as to what "ought to be done." The Great Depression came as a kind of dark vindi ... nyone's reading. In the October 1955 number, E.A. Burtt, professor of philosophy at Cornell, asks, "What Ca...

VOLUME X, NO. 28 JULY 10, 1957 THE UNCHARTED SEA WITH certain unmistakable apprehensions, we und ... ertake another article on Mysticism—or rather, on the p ... roblems connected with an approach to mysticism. The difficulties of an app ... s what ought to be done, and eventually will be done. The difficulty, however, is this. In science you u ... tian Belief MORE than fifteen years ago, Dr. E.A. Burtt, professor of philosophy at Cornell University, set ...

VOLUME XXIII, NO. 50 DECEMBER 16, 1970 PLATEAU OF UNDERSTANDING THE critical self-consciousness ... of modern thought is now well established. One need think only of such books as Floyd ... Matson's The Broken Image, Michael Polanyi's Personal ... ly labors to bring about the awakening is Edwin A. Burtt, modern philosopher and historian of ideas, whose s ... mathematically to obtain exact and certain knowledge. The secondary qualities included the confused and ...

VOLUME IX, NO. 17 APRIL 25, 1956 IS A LIFE AFTER DEATH POSSIBLE? [This article is adapted from a... n address delivered by Prof. C. J. Ducasse as a Foerst ... er Lecture under the auspices of the University of Californiaat Berkeley ... s asserted to be one upon which reflection is futile. Only empirical evidence, it is said, can be releva... O THINK MORE than thirty years ago, Prof. Edwin A. Burtt, who now teaches philosophy at Cornell University, ...

VOLUME VI, NO. 2 JANUARY 14, 1953 THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION: II CASTING about for a title for th ... is article, we hit upon "The Unfinished Revolution," on ... ly to recall that this was the title of the leading article i ... were other results, also, but these are unmistakable.A humble Italian scholar was among the first to so ... No. 2 MANAS Reprint January 14, 1953 13 FRONTIERS Burtt, who wrote the following for the Autumn 1941 number ...

VOLUME IV, NO. 45 NOVEMBER 7, 1951 GREAT QUESTIONS: V THE question of knowledge or certainty is ...among the oldest inquiries, and one which, while it may occasionally seem to be ... "settled," is continually being raised again in a new framework of human ... king that they know what knowledge and certainty are. This question tortured the Middle Ages over severa... d to itself enormous authority and prestige.A. E.Burtt, in his Metaphysical Foundations of Science, sums u ...

VOLUME XII, NO. 5 FEBRUARY 4, 1959 CHOOSE YOUR WILDERNESS FOR the past eight months I've been li ... ving in an uninhabited canyon in a remote range of desert mo ... untains. Food and water were brought to me three or fou ... imple needs required. My domestic economy was stable. Such foreign policy as I developed and enacted was ... l are also the theme of a remarkable book by E.A. Burtt, entitled the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Ph ...

VOLUME XIII, NO. 26 JUNE 29, 1960 THE CAUSES OF ALIENATION THE processes of alienation usually f ... irst attack a society at the top. That is, the feelings o ... f disorder, of aimlessness and inner decay first overtake its most ... rest in the characteristic patterns of American life. There may be great sympathy for the people, and th ... torical limitations of their past. Professor E.A. Burtt,a member of the conference's steering committee, e ...

VOLUME II, NO. 27 JULY 6, 1949 GREAT REFORMERS: HENRY GEORGE IF, in 1949, a man like Henry Georg ... e could run for Mayor in a large metropolis in the United States—as G ... eorge did in New York in 1886—and if he could nearly be elected—as George was— the ... eness against which he contended throughout his life. George was one of the last of the great idealists ... ing that has many forms and many expositors. E.A. Burtt, for one, of Cornell University, in his Metaphysica...

VOLUME XI, NO. 39 SEPTEMBER 24, 1958 OUR HUMAN PLIGHT I: ESCHATOLOGY FOR ALL IN THE NUCLEAR AGE ... EXTINCTION stares civilized man in the face, and civilized man lo ... oks in another direction. He prefers to ignore the colossal ... lar issue of the first importance in the Nuclear Age. What will our earth be like in the coming years—th ... ms to us an excellent volume. Like Professor E.A. Burtt, in The Compassionate Buddha, Mr. Barrett has manag ...